WWW Browsers

• Legality - The Netscape communicator 4 licence says

  None of the Software or underlying information or technology may be downloaded or otherwise exported or reexported (i) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Iran, Syria or any other country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods; or (ii) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Denial Orders. By downloading or using the Software, you are agreeing to the foregoing and you are representing and warranting that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list.

  If even one undergraduate isn't legally allowed to use Netscape on the teaching system, we are put into the difficult situation. We can't ask students to break international law, but neither should they have to use a worse program than their colleagues use.
• Resources - Netscape products are big.

                        HP-UX   Solaris 2.x   SunOS 4.1.x
     2.02              5566464    3074552       4759552
     3.01              4849664    4202344       5914624
     3.01Gold          5468160    4765880       6471680
     4.0 beta2         9617408    8284388      10027008
  

  Another resource issue is that of the X-terminal capability. Netscape uses a lot of X server resources and not infrequently crashes our X terminals.